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''The Bugle'' is a satirical news podcast, hosted by John Oliver and Andy Zaltzman. It was initially distributed by TimesOnline, but has been produced independently since January 2012. Focusing on global news stories (but primarily on UK/US news items), the show was launched in 2007 following John Oliver's move to New York to work on ''The Daily Show'', allowing Oliver and Andy Zaltzman to continue a partnership that had previously enjoyed success with Political Animal and The Department. The podcast depends solely on donations and sales of merchandise. As of April, 2015 it received over 500,000 downloads a month. == Overview == In 2007, comedians Andy Zaltzman and John Oliver were approached by The Times to do a satirical podcast, shortly after Oliver's move to New York. The first episode of ''The Bugle'' was released on 14 October 2007. New episodes of the podcast were generally recorded and published on Fridays with related material appearing on its official website. Until January 2012 ''The Bugle'' was distributed by TimesOnline, which is owned by Rupert Murdoch's News International. During the News International phone hacking scandal of 2011, ''The Bugle'' satirised its parent company in a manner which the New York Times characterized as "blistering" in an article published 15 August. Over the course of a few weekly episodes prior to the New York Times' article, Zaltzman and Oliver had gone "straight for the jugular" regarding News International, its newspapers, and Murdoch himself.〔 Their barbs included a comment that The News of the World "would not be missed at all", as well as the assertion by Oliver—in response to the shaving cream pie attack on Murdoch—that despite the humor inherent in the attack, "() just don't want to find yourself with any misplaced sympathy for Rupert Murdoch."〔 The comedians jokingly marveled with one another that no one in News International had yet shut down their podcast, with Oliver tapping his microphone and asking, "Should this not have been stopped by now? It doesn’t make sense!"〔 In response to the report from the New York Times, in an episode of ''The Bugle'' released 19 August, Oliver gave this opening monologue: "Welcome to any first-time Buglers who are here because they might have read The New York Times' story on us earlier this week…but now that the story's in a newspaper that I'm guessing () reads cover to cover every day, I'm thinking there's an even smaller chance of us managing to not get fired now. So thanks very much, New York Times! Your trumpeting of this podcast may well turn into bugling the Last Post. I guess what I'm saying is—to our new listeners—'Hello and goodbye!'" On 14 December 2011, Zaltzman announced that Times Online would soon cease hosting and distributing ''The Bugle''. He stressed that he did not believe that this decision was connected to ''The Bugles coverage of the News International phone hacking scandal. He also stated that both he and John wished to continue creating the podcast, and so Zaltzman "() not see this as the end of ''The Bugle''". The first episode of the newly independent podcast was published on 20 January 2012. As of October 2012 the podcast has moved to being funded by listener donations and runs most weeks. During mid-2014, ''The Bugle'' was put on hiatus, the show's first official break since it began, so that Oliver could focus more on his new television show, ''Last Week Tonight with John Oliver''. It resumed regular editions in the fall of that year. In July 2015, it was announced that ''The Bugle'' would become a monthly podcast.〔(Official confirmation of the change on The Bugle's Twitter page. )〕 However, as of December 2015, no new programmes have been released by the duo since May 2015, with the Bugle feed and podcast limited to Zaltzman's own material. An October tweet declared "The Bugle will return. We are currently unable record ()." 〔(Announcement that The Bugle is on an extended hiatus. )〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「The Bugle」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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